Hot Rods Pecks RPU project

Proper use of a patch panel. Save all you can of the old stuff.

 

Peck, here is a better pic of my flush fire wall with reversed seam.

 

Got my grill today, and dummied it up real quick.

 

Still need hood shelves and latches.

 

Getting clean.

 

I ordered cowl lacing , and 32 shell lacing from SNYDERS. And temporarily mounted it so I can get hood setting right , and ordered hood latches from CHINA BILL today because he was the cheapest .

 

I’m very happy with drivers side , passenger side not so much.

 

Rad! Lookin like a peckup now

 

Out with the old, in with the new. Another Pate swap meet score. And I talked him down on asking price.

 

New panel, good choice. Keep up the good work.

 

GO MAN GO

I bet you could get $125 for the old one on ePay

 

Nope, done cut patch panels out of it for bed floor, at very front of bed on each side.

 

The best I can do on a school night. Poor people got poor ways.

 

Today is weld up meaningless holes that some body drilled in bed years ago day.

 

Wire brushed all the rust and funk off the bottom of bed, and sprayed with rust encapsulater.

 

Ecklers had this piece on sale half price. $17

 

I got most of the bed mounting brackets tacked into the cross rails. And opened the tailgate for the first time. Probably hasn’t been opened in a bunch of years.

 

Tailgate needs to work so you can load the cooler.

 

NICE! Are you planning to run the bed full length or cut it down?

 

Full length.

 

Bed subframe is completed & bolted to frame, rear of bed main bone patched up and sprayed with rust encapsulator ( yeah poor people have poor ways). Back floor panel welded in and bed pulled in tight.

 

Pushed outside to look at it today.

 

Merc is being neglected during this time.

 

Man you have some cool stuff

 

Roadster ain’t mine , it’s my neighbor Chenyboro Kid .